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Double Take For film fans, there’s nothing more indulgent than a double bill. Okay, apart from maybe a triple or quadruple bill. Sadly, though, specia... Read more »

The central character in Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland’s 1970s-set sophomore feature, is Gilderoy, a crumpled English sound engineer pl... Read more »

So it turned out that the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival was rather good. The successes were many: a consistently strong programme of new films, ... Read more »

Picture the scene. It’s Christmas Eve. A fresh dusting of snow has turned the quaint, picket fence-lined streets of Kingston Falls into a living snowgl... Read more »

While scanning the programme of flicks in the upcoming Glasgay! festival, two categories draw they eye: the high profile art-house darlings that have broken ... Read more »

Ah, the road movie and the bromance, two sub-genres in no danger of dying out anytime soon thanks to their ubiquity on our cinema screens. But they've been w... Read more »

According to David Thomson, cinema’s great dissident critic, the putrid stench of death hangs in the air at your local multiplex, commingling with the ... Read more »

Scan Ken Loach's filmography and you have a pretty effective barometer for the quality of life for the people of the UK at the fuzzy end of the stick. For th... Read more »

On the response"We had over fifteen hundred submissions in the end – I think the exact figure was something like 1529 – which resulted in about 3... Read more »

The sparkiest scene in Peter Jackson’s eagerly anticipated return to Middle Earth is a battle of wits between Gollum (Lord of the Rings' tragic, ring-c... Read more »

Caroline Sascha Cogez is not your typical filmmaker, and those who venture to Glasgow Short Film Festival’s retrospective of her work on 8 and 10 Febru... Read more »

So it’s official. The 2013 edition of Glasgow Film Festival will be the biggest yet, with 368 screenings and events taking place in 27 venues spread ac... Read more »

Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps... Read more »

If you’re a UK-based film fan, there are few things quite as exciting as leafing through a hot-off-the-presses Edinburgh International Film Festival br... Read more »

Scotland isn’t great at recognising its considerable cultural achievements. When it comes to some of our brightest artistic lights, we seem to hide the... Read more »

Forgotten Frenchman The last hundred or so years of movies are a treasure trove. You can spend your life with your nose stuck in film books or scouring cine... Read more »

Frances (Gerwig) is in freefall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no per... Read more »

Brian De Palma’s skill as a director is matched by his glorious bad taste. Several filmmakers have had the gall to mine laughs out of serial killer mat... Read more »

The last De Palma film to not receive a theatrical outing in the UK was 2002’s feverish noir Femme Fatale. With Passion making its debut on t... Read more »

The Crash Reel, Lucy Walker’s compelling new documentary, has it all: sports rivalry, You’ve Been Framed-style carnage, family drama, a... Read more »

‘DANGER,’ reads the sign outside an abandoned quarry in the Lake District, ‘KEEP OUT.’ It’s good advice, for inside that mine d... Read more »

“Small venues are the lifeblood of British music.” So says Radiohead’s Phil Selway, one of a number of musicians supporting the inaugural I... Read more »

Cinema loves myths, and cinema-fans love the idea of the mythical film – the notion that great works of art are languishing in the Hollywood archives o... Read more »

It’s a couple of days after the Goyas, Spain’s national film awards, and Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez is in a downbeat mood. His fi... Read more »

A cacophony of laughter echoes around the downstairs bar of a flash Glasgow hotel. It’s early evening, but it seems a girls’ night is in full swi... Read more »

It’s suburban Sweden, 1982, and punk is dead. Two 13-year-old outsiders, Bobo (Barkhammar) and Klara (Grosin), are feeling the loss more than most. Und... Read more »

If you happened to be in Sheffield between 7 and 12 June, one thing is certain: you were aware that Doc/Fest, the UK’s largest celebration of documenta... Read more »

In My Bed’s structure is dazzling. Set in and around the bed belonging to Sarah (Olivia Sweeney), we flash backwards and forwards through a relationshi... Read more »

A working men’s club in Govan, Glasgow, July 2012. The decor is 70s wood-panelling chic and threadbare carpet. It’s late afternoon and a dozen or... Read more »

“I was in the university library and I saw this guy across from me – he was chatting up this girl and pointing to the pictures in a book.” ... Read more »